DIY tile: my successful experience
Good afternoon everyone! Online magazine The foreman. ONLINE, and today we will show and tell you about the successful experience of creating decorative paving slabs with your own hands.
In fact, original paving slabs are the dream of many gardeners and suburbanites. And we perfectly understand those who do not want to buy a ready-made square template tile, and want to make it with their own hands.
The photo below shows the result of such an initiative:
INWe made Japanese tiles around the existing tree - they imitate natural stone and are often placed in small gardens by the Japanese. Tile molds were made of ordinary flexible plastic containers. Sometimes, to give a complex shape, the plastic had to be heated.
The process of creating tiles is clear:
Thanks to such metal pins, the containers successfully keep the shape set by the landscape artist:
Pour ordinary concrete inside the container in a standard proportion of sand, cement and plasticizer (liquid soap in concrete).
With a large coverage area, there is such a beauty:
You can also add free-flowing color pigments to the top of the tile. Yes, this will make the tiles more expensive, but it will also make your garden or vegetable garden even more beautiful.